Soyuz crew reportedly alive after emergency landing

Russian Cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin and USA astronaut Nick Hague were on board but their lives "are not in danger", said Russian state TV.

A Soyuz rocket takes off from Baikonur Cosmodrome. Search and rescue teams are heading towards the expected touchdown location of the spacecraft and crew'.

But the members were forced to make an emergency landing after suffering a booster malfunction during launch in Kazakhstan.

Search and rescue crews are on their way to the Soyuz capsule, and were likely to reach it by 11.30pm, NZ time.

The rocket was carrying US astronaut Nick Hague and Russian cosmonaut Alexei Ovchinin. "The teams are en route to the landing site".

Roscosmos and NASA said the three-stage Soyuz booster suffered an emergency shutdown of its second stage.

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